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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney paid $1.9 million in taxes in 2011 on income of more than $13 million, his campaign said on Friday in attempt to counter claims by Democrats that he has been secretive about his taxes.... Continue reading →

Mitt Romney will release his 2011 tax return at 3p.m. this afternoon, and the campaign says the documents will show he paid a 14.1 percent tax rate in 2011. He reported income of $13.7 million. ... Continue reading →

Mitt Romney is seizing on President Barack Obama's comment that "you can't change Washington from the inside." The Republican nominee says he has what it takes to end the nasty partisanship in the nation's capital.... Continue reading →

Spending on television advertising in the race for the White House has topped two-thirds of a billion dollars, according to sources watching the advertising market, with Republicans only narrowly outpacing those who back President Obama.... Continue reading →

Mitt Romney is planning to increase the pace of his public campaign events in battleground states as he tries to move past one of the most difficult weeks of his Republican presidential campaign.... Continue reading →

If pocketbook issues are the main focus of the U.S. presidential election, President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney have remarkably little to say about a topic that directly affects most voters: the still-dismal housing market.... Continue reading →

The U.S. Justice Department's internal watchdog faulted 14 federal agents and prosecutors on Wednesday for the botched anti-gun-trafficking effort known as "Operation Fast and Furious" but cleared Attorney General Eric Holder of any wrongdoing.... Continue reading →

The November 6 election is still seven weeks away, but early, in-person voting begins in Idaho and South Dakota, even as Republicans and Democrats face off in court over similar plans.... Continue reading →

Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, the national co-chair for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, is resigning from the post to take a job as a bank lobbyist. Here are 10 tongue-in-cheek reactions.... Continue reading →

Hispanics are the focus as the race for the White House moves to Florida, a presidential battleground where a charged immigration debate is under way as President Barack Obama seeks to keep Republican challenger Mitt Romney on the defensive.... Continue reading →

After this, politicians everywhere should surely get the message. Mitt Romney's secretly recorded remarks at a Florida fundraiser — and the uproar that has followed — reinforce a key reality of the digital media era: the power of viral video to disrupt and potentially alter a high-stakes political contest.... Continue reading →

DANVILLE, Va. (AP) — Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan for a second day in a row attacked President Barack Obama's stewardship of the economy as the campaign sought to play turnabout on inconvenient recorded statements from the candidates' past.... Continue reading →

A bad stretch for Mitt Romney just got worse, and Republican insiders now are growing increasingly pessimistic about the GOP presidential nominee's chances of winning the White House.... Continue reading →

As Mitt Romney's campaign struggles to get past jarring distractions and back on message and President Barack Obama works to build on his small lead in polls, October's presidential debates are suddenly looming in importance.... Continue reading →

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will lobby lawmakers this week on the need to keep billions of dollars in aid flowing to Egypt and other countries caught up in a spasm of violent anti-American protests across the Muslim world.... Continue reading →